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PENDINE RACES: MOTOR RACING OVER FIFTY YEARS

by Lynn Hughes

Published by Gomer Press. 1st. 2000

Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. 'The finest natural speedway imaginable' is how The Motor Cycle describes Pendine Sands in 1920. The Welsh TT, staged over the August Bank Holiday from 1922, was an exuberant, three-day event. Reliving the Glory Days and recording an episode in our sporting and social histsory in danger of being lost. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos.

A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded at lower edge and is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

ISBN: 1859028306
Stock no. 1824717

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Contents

  • End-papers poem: Pendine Races by Lynn Hughes after Douglas Phillips
  • Foreword: Denis Parkinson
  • Veteran Days
  • Motor Union Tour
  • Pembroke & Pendine
  • Vintage Years
  • The Golden Era Begins
  • The First Welsh TT
  • Brough Superiority
  • Glory days
  • Tommy Thomas & Babs
  • Fall from Grace
  • The Man in White & the Skipton Butcher
  • Stanley Wood
  • The First Welsh Grand Prix
  • The Fife Flyer
  • Post-war Enthusiasm
  • Mr. Manx Grand Prix
  • Pendine Hundred again
  • World Motor Cycle Land Speed Record
  • Fabulous Fred
  • Rex is King
  • A Glory that has passed
  • Postscript
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Appendix I Pembrokeshire Automobile Club, 1910 meeting: key
  • Appendix II 1922 Motorcycles
  • Appendix III Kings of Pendine
  • Index

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